A Practical Guide to Safer Browsing on Public Wi-Fi
Public Wi-Fi feels like a small modern miracle when you need it most. Your phone plan is choking, a file has to go out in ten minutes, your laptop battery is somehow still alive, and there it is: free internet at the airport, hotel, cafe, library, train station, or conference center. That little Wi-Fi symbol can feel like rescue. It can also be a trap. Not because every coffee shop network is secretly run by criminals, and not because public Wi-Fi is unusable by defin